Quotes and Sayings about Insects
"The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects."
- Chanakya
(Related: Life, End, Insects, Man)
"In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music."
- George Crumb
(Related: Music, Nature, Birds, Insects, Sense, Water, Wind)
"There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death."
- Soren Kierkegaard
(Related: Death, Life, Enjoyment, Insects)
"Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well."
- Richard Leakey
(Related: Insects, Plants)
"Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
(Related: Nature, Knowledge, Being, Insects, Lies, Mind, Treasure)
"It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which is the cockroach - and truly one of the most frightening insects."
- Michael O'Donoghue
(Related: Science, Desire, Fiction, Insects)
"Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects."
- Michael O'Donoghue
(Related: Fear, Insects)
"It's very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real tinker toys and you can make models of them quite easily."
- Michael O'Donoghue
(Related: Insects)
"A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd."
- Jeremy Rifkin
(Related: Idea, Insects, Sight)
"When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products?"
- Jeremy Rifkin
(Related: Animals, Birds, Insects, Land, Plants)
"Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Country, Insects, Plants, Spiders)
"My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses."
- Alexander Scriabin
(Related: Insects, Kisses, Sun)
"We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics."
- Bill Vaughan
(Related: Gratitude, Hope, Insects, Will, World)
"If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos."
- E. O. Wilson
(Related: Chaos, Environment, Insects, Mankind, State, World, Years)